4 February 2013

Sexy Office

Image © Ubiquitous
Image © Ubiquitous
Image © Ubiquitous
Image © Ubiquitous
This is one sexy office! It's the home of communication agency Ubiquitous, based in Manchester. I think the interior looks like a mixture of a gentleman's club / posh hotel / European architecture studio. I'd be more than happy to work in a place like that. 

20 September 2012

Lights

Image © Paul Crofts Studio
Image © Paul Crofts Studio
Image © Paul Crofts Studio
I love the interior styling of this little creperie, La Petite Bretagne in London. The spun aluminium & turned wood lights first caught my eye, but looking round the series of photos there are some great details to the french bistro. The project was completed by Paul Croft Studios and they applied some industrial & modern techniques to create a homely feel, for example screen printed dinning tables and adding lace detail to a modern coat hook.

2 March 2012

Cool Small Home Offices

Smooth & sleek office for the architect inside you. A very calming space
Proof that a home office can work in the smallest of place, this hallway office is really sweet & quirky.
A piece of statement furniture can multi task into a room divider or office cubicle & you can close it away at the end of the day.
When I'm stuck in traffic on my way to work I often dream about working from home in a pretty little office that inspires me. I've spotted a great article called "33 cool small home office ideas" which has some fantastic exmaples of using the smallest of spaces & some fantastic pieces of furniture. I've posted a few pics of my favourites above.

19 February 2012

School House Electric & Supply Company

Website home page
Inspiration room by room: Vintage Modern
School House Electric & Supply Company is a lovely website for home & office goodies. The style is utilitarian, elegant and industrial. I love the cookware and dinner ranges, clean ceramics with a tinted edge. The website has a great inspiration section with room ideas using their products.

29 December 2011

Skyline & Chimney

Chimney Range

Skyline & Rooftop

Following my post below by the Oslo trio I thought I'd share some of my product designs. Helena & myself meet at Uni whilst studying 3D Design, Furniture & Fine Product and above are a few of my creations from my final year. The Chimney Range was a collection of vessels for storage in the home, they developed into tea & coffee pots. The shapes of the vessel create a hierarchy by using different sized polygons as a base, starting at 6 sides jumping up to 12. The change in base size altered the shape of vessels from short & open to slender and enclosed. I wanted to play with materials and created the prototypes from powder coated sheet metal & a resin lid - if the pieces ever made mass production I would like to combine sheet metal & ceramic or introduce wood into the lid & handle components. 

The Shelves are based on the skylines of cities and the rooftops of towns. Their construction is very simple, they are made from sheet steal and bent into shape and finished off by being powder coated, I've opted for Red, Black, White & Purple in my range. The shelves were designed to contain your things in a controlled manner, we often place items in shelves in a messed up & chaotic nature, often stuffing books into holes and spaces. I hope you like them. 

The shelves are available for sale if you are interested please drop me an email


6 December 2011

British by Design



Gulliver's Travels by Spineless Classics


Envelope Mail Holder by Goodwin + Goodwin

British by Design is a website managed by Design Event (founders of a North East design festival). The website celebrates & supports British Design by British designers / makers & manufacturers. The products range from prints, furniture, homeware & textiles. I've had a good scourer and there are some great pieces for the home. A worthy cause to support.